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pim---- About half 1 walked Sy, lo BY 'whic! 'the politi of Tosi "Govern: 'ment, - ed, for Botan 4 an Bou! 8 notice in {Zrer, \ pay a pound for & port, totally ignoring the ish passport which he prod was aszsied again at Breslau as a spy, and only got away by per- iy the A ls that if they wanted to shoot him y. could do it quite as expeditiou y in Berlin. He arrived in Berlin at 1 Tuesday, went to bed ear immediately he left his room on Wednesday was again arrested for espionage, being simply informed. : "If we find you are a spy we shoot you." He had told so many different storiés that he felt quite certain' they would detect the act, that he was an officer; and he would be shot. Once again his gift for he conversation got him off,~ this time by a sheer miracle, for whilst he had flatly denied that he was an i| officer his military title and regi- ment were printed large on. his. boxes. He made his way to the Em bassy, -and ultimately came out of Germany with us, of course, with- out his luggage, as "The Englis lish pewepaper correspondent, Captain OE these days of real terror in Berlin similar scenes were tak- ing place in other parts of the king- oidomi. Two American girls, motor- ing with a governess, reached the German frontier shortly after the declaration of war. Despite their} t possession of passports, issued in America and even vised, they were dragged out of their car, stripped to the sly, their possessions searched, and 'finally only allowed to turn back from the. frontier af: | ter disgusting insults. ! eerste Always Leap Year. A extraordinary custom pre- vails among the Vizrees, a powerful tribe occupying an extensive dis- trict in Oabul, among the 'moun- tains between "Persia and India-- a female prerogative 'that parallel among any other people the earth. The women, 'in fact, choose: their husbands, and not "the husbands their wives. If a woman | be pleased with a man she sends 8 | the drummer of the camp to pin a ® | handkerchief to his cap, with a pin( she has used to fasten her hair. The drummer watches his SEpOrUNitys | and dose thi the caught the boat q paration of the hi bed Ps 'be it | thorough and extend over, a ae of several weeks, so as to secure a firm and finely pulverized 'seed bed in which the weeds and weed seeds -| have been as completely eradicated as possible, : ; he presence of nitrogen fixing bacteria is of utmost importance in the growing of alfalfa. Both he: soil and pure culture methods inoculation have given good pooped and one. or hoth should always be ," and used whenever alfalfa is bei ed for the first time in a field. The use of a nurse crop ie no shall | visable except on fields | to blow or wash and on that are poorly p sepated as and } apt .to become weedy : The use of manure in seedi falfa is advisable if applied ina quickly 3 hear gced Bed ¥ this tends to hold up the spil ; allow it to dry out, or to apy asa top dressing shortly before "seed: ing, because of the introduction of = weed seeds. < Death to Poultry in Salt. An instance is told of a woman who had by mistake put salt into cake instead of sugar. She ough there was no danger in throw this out to the poultry. but it ae ed the death of every bird she pes: sessed. This does not mean a "slight por: tion of salt, such as may qocur in Breadmeking, fest roduce geri t is ti ually y peop) to excess. Just what effect at ing in excess may have upon the human system is not fully known. It is not impossible it may ha no | something to do with ¢ growths and other dreaded Feeding the Calf. The essential 2 ine to be. kept. mind are the fol 7 Do not not. Eo Feed warm milk, : 4 Rood weet, fresh milk